English language
Published Dec. 30, 2020 by World Weaver Press.
This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems—even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some stories take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.
This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems—even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some stories take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.
Her anolojide olduğu gibi pek bana hitap etmeyen/beğenmediğim eserler ile enteresan yaklaşımlar barındıran bir seçki olmuş. Yaptıkları şeyi, kadın ve LGBT+ karakterleri daha sıkça kullanmış olmalarını vs. çok takdir ediyorum.
Solarpunk ile ilgileniyorsanız diyarda neler yapılıyormuş diye şöyle bir bakmak isteyebilirsiniz.
Too often solarpunk short stories seem to focus on the technology with the story added almost as an afterthought, but this excellent anthology definitely doesn't suffer from that issue. Almost every story features characters who learn and develop in their own right and exist in relationship with one another beyond the setting. The theme of winter is also a novel change with challenges and opportunities provided by ice, snow and flood rather than the more common heat and drought. (Based as I am in England's soggy south west, I really enjoyed the umbrellas that caught the kinetic energy of raindrops in Shel Graves' story). Highly recommended.
Too often solarpunk short stories seem to focus on the technology with the story added almost as an afterthought, but this excellent anthology definitely doesn't suffer from that issue. Almost every story features characters who learn and develop in their own right and exist in relationship with one another beyond the setting. The theme of winter is also a novel change with challenges and opportunities provided by ice, snow and flood rather than the more common heat and drought. (Based as I am in England's soggy south west, I really enjoyed the umbrellas that caught the kinetic energy of raindrops in Shel Graves' story). Highly recommended.
